Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-06
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FOR THE LADIES.
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LECTION.
The Subject Of salon Making-HOw 10 Make G0bshn
~TlPSry-A New Use EF Samplers
N,xl Years FaShnBS-Scisno Of
DaSnng-GNSiP etc.
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;r.4G U~1rrspogtrcr Qfbe Sgaduy Register.
The subject Of Saion-makinE.

The subject OF SaiOn-making.
NEW YORK. March 6.-"With Washing
ton IN winter and Saratoga in summer, l
never want TO die, said a fashionable wo-
man to me "A few days ago. Such an avowal
j. undoubtedly reprehenSible by reason OF
It's lrrcchimahle worldineSS, but really
Washington X most b~ewitchingly charm
my this sraSou. Entertainments multiply
M acrractiveueSS as Lent approached, when
p<l force the dancing brigade must restrain
their impttuOuS ycaUninS to trip it on the
hght fantastic toe and quiet down to some
thug ot more intellectual pleasure. This
can I've found On every hand, and really it
looks aS Washington, before all the cities
OF America, were going to emulate the ex-
ample Of Paris IN the matter OF salons. Mr..
>poitnrd, Librarian oi Congress- read a
most fascinating paper on the subject OF
the NiIoli> of Paris \ few nights ago before
the Travel Club, which meets every Mon
day evening at the StrIthmOre Arms, in
Twelfth street, the excellent house where
General and Mrs. Logan made their homes
for many wears. With the ease of the
scholar be is, Mr.. SpOfford poured out a
crystal stream of information on the sub
iect of S~aloR-making, an art seemingly so
easy, and yet in reality 10 difficult. He
pictured 10 his delighted hearers the scenes
OF unparalleled intellectual delight which
tOok place in the Hotel de R~ambOuillet,
and showed Us the long line OF sparkling
wits, male and female, who passed through
those historic rooms. Mile. de Seuderi,
Horace Walpole. Mime. du Dctlaud, all ap-
lrIrrd before Us IN their mental habit ~
they lived, and again enchanted-eyen -
when they were in the heSh-a delighted
,hyoug Loud aud long were the praises
which fell upon the sar of onr erudite
Government Librarian when ali too early
Lee brought his reading to = close.
Having heard that Mr.. SpoifOrd never
reads q hook" according To report anent
this marvellous book man, | went to the
library the next day after his lecture and
ASKED him IL he would kindly explain the
seeming Inconsistency 81 his being 81 well
err,rL concerning the NliUHS Of laTiS aud
his never reading a hook; for certainly he
can have no personal knowledge OF salons
whose doors were closed forever 100 years
ago. 'uh, | read up TOR topics he eX-
planned. but ! never read, line after line,
Is, p,oplr generally 10. i seize the writer's
thought aud brush aside the verhiage in
which IL l. clothed
This. ~ We know from Roswell, was the
habit Of Dr. Johnson, who had the faculty
of g'rlmiuga all the information a book con
lIu, 10y rapidly turning over the leaves,
anil not stopping To read \ single sentence
.ursr through. As JOhnSon's memory WAS
p.aI ,iouS. he retained all the vast amount
o.. kuvwlyd-c thus cleaned, ana this it WAS
which made Dictionary Johnson - ~
learned a m1n
Having been Iuv ten years . Trlderat the
HHuSh Museum. a. we'll ~ AZ the other
great uhr,rlrs, I made boli to express the
up.l.uu that that though a person with a
good memory may learn a great many facts
Do, this rapid absorption OF hooks, he will
never hs lt~ practice acquire "A good literary
style. And iuy a writer who respects hun
>,.i tn one thiuG imperative IN literature
l,~stvIr. J.. s'yi,, cast ThoUu.,'
OLIVE LOGAN.